The Condition of South Carolina’s Estuarine and Coastal Habitats During 2001-2002
Below is the Table of Contents for the 2001-2002 SCECAP Report (Adobe PDF - file size 2.3MB). Adobe® Reader® is required to open this file and is available as a free download from the Adobe® Web site.
Table of Contents
Section | Page |
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1. INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2. METHODS | 1 |
2.1. Sampling Design | 1 |
2.2. Water Quality Measurements | 2 |
2.3. Biological and Sediment Sampling | 2 |
2.4. Habitat Evaluation | 4 |
2.5. Quality Assurance | 4 |
2.6. Data Analyses | 4 |
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 4 |
3.1. Station Array | 4 |
3.2. Water Quality | 5 |
Temperature | 7 |
Salinity | 8 |
Dissolved Oxygen | 9 |
pH | 10 |
Nutrients | 12 |
Chlorophyll-a | 15 |
Biochemical Oxygen Demand | 18 |
Water Column Total Organic Carbon | 19 |
Fecal Coliform Bacteria | 20 |
Turbidity | 21 |
Alkalinity | 21 |
Integrated Assessment of Water Quality | 21 |
3.3 Sediment Quality | 24 |
Sediment Composition | 24 |
Sediment Total Organic Carbon | 25 |
Porewater Ammonia | 26 |
Contaminants | 27 |
Toxicity | 28 |
Integrated Assessment of Sediment Quality | 28 |
3.4 Biological Condition | 31 |
Phytoplankton | 31 |
Benthic Communities | 33 |
Finfish and Crustacean Communities | 39 |
Contaminant Levels in Fish Tissue | 44 |
3.5 Incidence of Litter | 45 |
3.6 Integrated Measures of South Carolina’s Estuarine Habitat Quality | 45 |
3.7 Non-random Stations | 49 |
3.8 Summary | 51 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 52 |
LITERATURE CITED | 53 |
APPENDIX | 59 |
Data from this survey period can also be found on the Data Tables page.